This article examines the birth and development of the OMT program and its implications for the EU integration process. Following this, the OMT case is analyzed from two perspectives. First, as an example of “Institution building” in the European Union: developments that lasted two years...

Analyzes EU posted work in theory and practice from the point of view of the posted worker and identifies emerging structures of access and denial to labor rights for temporary intra-EU migrant workers based on extensive qualitative data collection in Germany.